Obama announced members of the Presidential Council of Advisor's on Science and Technology (PCAST)
It is an august group.
Physical scientists you might know:
Christopher Chyba - Princeton - astrobiology and arms control
S. James Gates - Maryland - particle theorist
Shirley Ann Jackson - RPI - oh yes!
William Press - Texas - astrophysics and computing
Ahmed Zewail - Caltech - femtosecond laser
Plus a bunch of industry, chem, bio, enviro etc types.
Including someone from Microsoft and someone from Google/Apple... Hmm.
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